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UCD Centre for Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Investigation is attending WACCI 2016 in Oshkosh. Come to hear more about the Freetool Project - new funding was approved in 2016 to upgrade the six tools already developed and to create new Forensic and OSINT tools.

UCD Centre for Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Investigation is attending WACCI 2016 in Oshkosh. Come to hear more about the Freetool Project - new funding was approved in 2016 to upgrade the six tools already developed and to create new Forensic and OSINT tools.

UCD Centre for Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Investigation (UCD CCI) has won further funding from the European Commission DG Migration and Home Affairs for a project entitled FREETOOL v2.0 – Maturing and Extending the FREETOOL Tool development Initiative.

UCD Centre for Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Investigation (UCD CCI) has won further funding from the European Commission DG Migration and Home Affairs for a project entitled FREETOOL v2.0 – Maturing and Extending the FREETOOL Tool development Initiative.

The interim report on the project results achieved in activities on L3CE development, Research & Development and Innovation, development of training courses, certification programmes and dissemination areas was approved by the European Commission in April of 2015.

On RTE's Prime Time, UCD Centre for Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Investigation analysts show ten members of the public how much of their (private) life is on view and what criminals can do with their information

Cheryl Baker, Head of the UCD Centre for Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Investigation, spoke about capacity building at the Global Cyber Security Conference - European Security Round Table & Estonian Ministry of Defence, on 30 January 2013.

Matthijs van Amelsfort, who received his MSc in Forensic Computing & Cybercrime Investigation, is the 2012 winner of the Garda Commissioner's Award as the student graduating in his year with the highest grade point average (GPA).

Counsellor Mr. Saeed Mutheeb from the Saudi Arabian Embassy, was Guest of Honour at an award ceremony for 11 police officers from Saudi Arabia who came to UCD in November for cybercrime investigation training.

Thank you to everyone who completed our recent survey of graduates of our MSc in Forensic Computing & Cybercrime Investigation programme. Over half of you responded and we are delighted with the positive feedback and useful suggestions and comments. Here is a quick summary of the survey responses.

02-04 September
CCI members attend a meeting in the Council of Europe, Strasbourg. The meeting is to finalise a proposal on the harmonisation of cybercrime training for Judges and prosecutors

06-08 July
CCI members attend a Council of Europe meeting in the Centre de Esutos Judiciarios, Lisbon, Portugal. The meeting is to work on a council of Europe proposal on the harmonisation of cybercrime training for Judges and prosecutors

01 July
CCI give a presentation on COFEE, Microsoft's Law Enforcement tool, at the Law Enforcement conference in Edinburgh, Scotland

19 JuneUNODC is working closely with the Irish Police Service, which was recently awarded funding under the European Commission Prevention of and Fight against Crime (ISEC) programme

04 June
CCI give a presentation on the Microsoft's Law Enforcement tool, COFEE, at the Microsoft Law Enforcement conference in Reading, UK

27 April- 22 May
Basic AGIS course for Gardai

07 MayWG Open Meeting , co-organized by University College Dublin (Ireland) and Université de Technologie de Troyes (France) and hosted by the European Commission in Brussels. This meeting aims to provide interested universities, industry and law enforcement agencies from Europe and beyond with the opportunity to learn more about the 2CENTRE vision, and see how they can join this project in the short and medium term.

27 April
UCD and Interpol co-operate further to fight international cybercrime. They signed a Memorandum of Understanding to further develop their links towards tackling cybercrime